Hello Karl,

> I am trying to determine if my HFS is setup or working correctly.
> When a new account is created using newacct, what should be
> created in the HFS space?

Nothing.  When you create a new account via :newacct you create
an account entry, a user (AM) entry and the PUB group entry on
the volume set specified (default=mpexl_system_volume_set).

> I'm asking based on an error I get while trying to install
> Samba/ix on 5.5.
> The setupj job tries to use newlink to link /etc/local/samba
> to /SAMBA/PUB.
> This generates an error because there is no /local/samba under /etc.

I don't know about SAMBA's need here.  FWIW, the syntax of the
shell's ln -s (to create a link) is the opposite of the CI's
:newlink command.  The CI's :newlink command creates a link pointing
to something.  That "something" does not need to exist.

To create a link named "/etc/local/samba" the directories "/etc"
and "/etc/local" must already exist.

HTH,
Jeff Vance, CSY